Keyword: aipachttps://www.freerepublic.com/tag/aipac/
en-usThu, 21 Sep 2017 19:29:55 GMTFocus Forum15Valerie Plame tweets story blaming &#x27;America&#x27;s Jews&#x27; for foreign warshttps://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3587766/posts
Former CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson on Thursday tweeted an article that argued American Jews are pushing for war in the Middle East, specifically with Iran. The article, titled &#x93;America&#x92;s Jews Are Driving America&#x92;s Wars,&#x94; is featured in The Unz Review, an online magazine that bills itself as an &#x93;alternative&#x94; to the &#x93;mainstream media.&#x94; After several minutes of questions from Twitter users who were shocked by her tweet, Wilson doubled down, arguing critics should read the article and &#x93;put aside&#x94; any biases. &#x93;1) First of all, calm down. Re-tweets don&#x27;t imply endorsement. Yes, very provocative, but thoughtful. Many neocon hawks...The Hillhttps://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3587766/posts#commentThu, 21 Sep 2017 19:29:55 GMTState Department Waging &#x22;Open War&#x22; on White Househttps://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3586510/posts
The U.S. State Department has backed away from a demand that Israel return $75 million in military aid which was allocated to it by the U.S. Congress. The repayment demand, championed by U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, was described as an underhanded attempt by the State Department to derail a campaign pledge by U.S. President Donald J. Trump to improve relations with the Jewish state. The dispute is the just the latest example of what appears to be a growing power struggle between the State Department and the White House over the future direction of American foreign policy. The...The Gatestone Institute--International Policy Councilhttps://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3586510/posts#commentSun, 17 Sep 2017 12:05:23 GMTU.S. Lawmakers Seek to Criminally Outlaw Support for Boycott Campaign Against Israelhttps://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3570841/posts
THE CRIMINALIZATION OF political speech and activism against Israel has become one of the gravest threats to free speech in the West. In France, activists have been arrested and prosecuted for wearing T-shirts advocating a boycott of Israel. The U.K. has enacted a series of measures designed to outlaw such activism. In the U.S., governors compete with one another over who can implement the most extreme regulations to bar businesses from participating in any boycotts aimed even at Israeli settlements, which the world regards as illegal. On U.S. campuses, punishment of pro-Palestinian students for expressing criticisms of Israel is so...The Intercepthttps://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3570841/posts#commentFri, 21 Jul 2017 12:16:21 GMTNETANYAHU, CONGRESS, AIPAC AND THE PLO-The whitewashing of the PLO must end.https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3512508/posts
Originally published by the Jerusalem Post. It is not in the least surprising that the PLO-controlled Palestinian Authority did not condemn the terrorist attack on Sunday. It is not surprising because the PLO-controlled PA encouraged the attack. As Khaled Abu Toameh wrote for the Gatestone Institute, in the aftermath of last month&#x92;s US-enabled passage of UN Security Council Resolution 2334, which criminalizes Israel, the PA went on the warpath. . Among other things, Muhammad Abu Shtayyeh, who serves as a close adviser to PLO chief and PA leader Mahmoud Abbas called for an intensification of terrorist attacks against Israelis. Shtayyeh...Frontpagemagazinehttps://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3512508/posts#commentTue, 10 Jan 2017 13:13:09 GMTHuma Abedin Attacked Mainstream Jewish Grouphttps://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3489470/posts
Huma Abedin, Hillary Clinton&#x92;s increasingly notorious confidante and top aide, urged Bill Clinton to reject an invitation to speak before the American Israel Public Affairs Council (AIPAC). In an email, she wrote: &#x93;u really want to consider sending him into that crowd?&#x94; (Emphasis added) From her use of the phrase &#x93;that crowd,&#x94; you might think that AIPAC is a radical organization that advocates ethnic cleansing or some other draconian &#x93;solution&#x94; to the problems of the Middle East. In reality, of course, AIPAC, is as mainstream a Jewish political organization as exists.http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2016/10/huma-abedin-attacked-mainstream-jewish-group.phpPowerlinehttps://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3489470/posts#commentSat, 5 Nov 2016 05:21:33 GMTHuma Abedin in Hot Water for Dismissing AIPAC as &#x91;That Crowd&#x92;https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3477422/posts
Hillary Clinton&#x92;s closest aide, Huma Abedin, is catching heat for dismissing the American Israel Public Affairs Council as &#x93;that crowd&#x94; in a newly revealed email exchange. In a 2009 email to Bill Clinton aide Doug Band, Abedin recommended that former President Clinton turn down an invitation to speak before the pro-Israel lobbying group. &#x93;U really want to consider sending him into that crowd?&#x94; Abedin asked.New York Posthttps://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3477422/posts#commentThu, 6 Oct 2016 19:05:57 GMTRon Paul: Why Are We Sending $38 Billion to Rich and Powerful Israel?https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3470993/posts
Last week&#x92;s announcement of a record-breaking US aid package for Israel underscores how dangerously foolish and out-of-touch is our interventionist foreign policy. Over the next ten years, the US taxpayer will be forced to give Israel some $38 billion dollars in military aid. It is money we cannot afford going to a country that needs no assistance to maintain its status as the most powerful military in the Middle East. All US foreign aid is immoral and counterproductive. As I have often said, it is money taken from poor people in the US and sent to rich people overseas. That...Ron Paul Institutehttps://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3470993/posts#commentMon, 19 Sep 2016 14:00:04 GMTAIPAC: Obama Allowed Iran To Evade Nuclear Restrictionshttps://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3465206/posts
AIPAC: Obama Allowed Iran To Evade Nuclear RestrictionsBy Israel News Agency StaffNew York &#x97; September 1, 2016 &#x85; The following is a statement from AIPAC on concessions to Iran on JCPOA implementation: &#x93;We are deeply troubled by today&#x92;s report that Iran was secretly allowed to evade certain restrictions in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) so that it could begin receiving sanctions relief. If the report is accurate, this unwarranted leniency sets a dangerous precedent concerning adherence to the agreement. No further concessions should be granted to Iran, and complete transparency related to the deal&#x92;s implementation must be provided....Israel News Agencyhttps://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3465206/posts#commentFri, 2 Sep 2016 00:37:20 GMTClinton backers nix Israel &#x27;occupation&#x27; add to Democratic platformhttps://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3447940/posts
Supporters of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Saturday rejected a proposal to include a statement in the party&#x27;s platform calling for Israel&#x27;s &#x22;end to occupations and illegal settlements,&#x22; CNN reported. ... While the committee voted against the addition 95-73, CNN reported that the move garnered the loudest negative response of the day from the audience. ... One crowd member was escorted out of the meeting after he stood up and yelled that the party had &#x22;sold out&#x22; to AIPAC (the American Israel Public Affairs Committee).Jerusalem Posthttps://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3447940/posts#commentSun, 10 Jul 2016 08:26:50 GMTFlorida Rabbi Loses Job After Protesting Trumphttps://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3441591/posts
David Paskin staged a walkout during Trump&#x27;s speech at AIPAC. Two months later, his contract with Temple Beth David in Palm Beach Gardens was unexpectedly not renewed. A Florida rabbi must leave his pulpit after his protest of Donald Trump&#x92;s speech at the annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference riled congregants. David Paskin, who serves as rabbi of the Conservative Temple Beth David synagogue in the south Florida city of Palm Beach Gardens, will leave his position in July. In March, Paskin was one of a group of Conservative rabbis who led a protest of Trump&#x92;s speech at the...Haaretzhttps://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3441591/posts#commentSat, 18 Jun 2016 23:11:53 GMTObama&#x92;s November Surprise for Israel?
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Word is going around diplomatic circles that the Obama administration is planning a November surprise for Israel. Here&#x92;s what is said to be going on: The Paris peace conference last Friday, to which Israel and the Palestinians were not even invited, will end up exerting enormous pressure on Israel to create a Palestinian state. This renewed pressure will come despite evidence that a Palestinian state in the West Bank will quickly be dominated by genocidal Hamas, which is a threat to Israel and a disaster for the Palestinians. This will lead, in all likelihood, to a United Nations Security Council...Algemeinerhttps://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3438342/posts#commentThu, 9 Jun 2016 11:37:22 GMTObama and the daylight between US and Israelhttps://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3411423/posts
This week&#x92;s AIPAC conference will place the fractured Israel-US relationship front and center in the American public&#x92;s focus. Of all the promises that the Obama White House has failed to keep regarding US-Israeli relations, it is breaking its undertaking that there will be &#x93;no daylight&#x94; between the two allies that has above all solidified the growing wedge between Washington and Jerusalem. There is a soft/active boycott coming out of Washington as a result of the &#x93;tough love&#x94; message that Barack Obama has been peddling around since his talk in Jerusalem in 2013 and during his speech during Jewish American Heritage...The HIllhttps://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3411423/posts#commentSun, 20 Mar 2016 12:35:32 GMTTrump: A Lot of Jewish Friends Say, &#x91;Will Never Be Able to Make Deal&#x92; Between Israel, Palestinians
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Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump told a rally in Indiana on Sunday that &#x93;a lot of [his] Jewish friends&#x94; tell him he &#x93;will never be able&#x94; to broker peace between Israel and the Palestinians, the Jewish Insider reported. During a speech to more than 2,000 supporters at the Indiana Theater in Terre Haute ahead of Tuesday&#x92;s primary race, Trump first attacked the United Nations for not &#x93;going in and making [such] a deal,&#x94; which he called &#x93;probably the all-time hard deal to make,&#x94; and then criticized the Palestinians: You know, they grow up as young children hating, hating, hating Israel....Algemeinerhttps://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3426859/posts#commentTue, 3 May 2016 11:02:54 GMTDonald Trump&#x92;s Speech at AIPAC Demonstrates Why He Will Be America&#x92;s Next Presidenthttps://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3415110/posts
As Chemi Shalev described in his Haaretz article: On Monday night, Donald Trump showed how and why he might be elected president of the United States. Invited to participate in a candidate&#x92;s forum at AIPAC&#x92;s annual conference, he came, he spoke, he conquered. In future history, the 2016 AIPAC Policy Conference might yet be viewed as a watershed event on way to the Trump Era. Trump entered the Verizon Center in Washington D.C. as a prime suspect but emerged clean as a whistle. In less than half an hour, he took a skeptical and apprehensive audience and turned them into...SilverDoctorshttps://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3415110/posts#commentTue, 29 Mar 2016 14:55:14 GMTAIPAC&#x92;s apology for Trump speech is unprecedentedhttps://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3412524/posts
This morning, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu experienced something that American politicians have become all too familiar with &#x97; being overshadowed by Donald Trump. The prime minister&#x92;s video-linked speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee&#x27;s conference was preceded by the unscheduled introduction of AIPAC President Lillian Pinkus and four other leaders. Choking back tears, Pinkus apologized for Monday night&#x27;s speeches, implying that Donald Trump had violated a nonpartisan standard. &#x93;From the moment this conference began, until this moment, we have preached a message of unity,&#x94; Pinkus said. &#x93;We have said, in every way we can think of: Come together....Washington Posthttps://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3412524/posts#commentWed, 23 Mar 2016 02:01:30 GMTAIPAC Head Gives Emotional Apology For Donald Trump Attack On Obamahttps://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3412504/posts
&#x93;Last evening, something occurred which has the potential to drive us apart. To divide us. We say, unequivocally, that we do not countenance ad hominem attacks, and we take great offense to those that are levied against the president of the United States of America from our stage,&#x94; Pinkus said, reading from a statement. &#x93;While we may have policy differences, we deeply respect the office of the president of the United States, and our president, Barack Obama.&#x94; As she continued to read, Pinkus began to choke up, visibly angered by Trump&#x92;s words, and by the applause they evoked. &#x93;There are...Huffpohttps://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3412504/posts#commentWed, 23 Mar 2016 01:06:53 GMTPaul Ryan&#x27;s Latest Speech Said One Thing: He&#x27;s Runninghttps://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3412478/posts
WASHINGTON, D.C.&#x97;All three of the remaining presidential candidates got the prime speaking slots Monday night at the annual AIPAC policy conference, to which we were not invited, alas, although that seems to have been somewhat epidemic. But any chance we get to hear Paul Ryan, the zombie-eyed granny starver from the state of Wisconsin, talk about foreign policy, the area in which Joe Biden literally laughed him out of the campaign in 2012, is one that we never should pass up. (Remember when Ryan explained to us that, in Afghanistan, it snows during the winter? Gravitas!) Of all the barefaced...Esquirehttps://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3412478/posts#commentTue, 22 Mar 2016 23:53:11 GMTAIPAC&#x92;s Ovation for Trump is Not at All Surprisinghttps://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3412443/posts
My friends at the AIPAC conference are shocked, shocked that so many fellow attendees gave Donald Trump an ovation last night. Just like my Republican friends are shocked that so many fellow Republicans have voted for him. Why the surprise, though? Is it at all surprising that a rightward-tilting, nationalistic, often-anti-Muslim pep rally of 18,000 people (many paid to be there by a handful of billionaires) would applaud a rightward-tilting, nationalistic, often-anti-Muslim leader of pep rallies? The weirdest shock of all, though, came from AIPAC itself, whose leader apologized this morning for Trump&#x92;s having insulted President Obama. Choking back tears,...The Daily Beasthttps://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3412443/posts#commentTue, 22 Mar 2016 22:33:32 GMTTrump Yarmulkes Are Biggest Seller at AIPAC Conferencehttps://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3412435/posts
If yarmulke sales are any indication of voter attitudes, Donald Trump was the clear winner at AIPAC on Monday night. Marc Daniels, a vendor selling campaign logo kippas outside the American Israel Public Affairs Committee conference in Washington, D.C. on Monday evening, said the &#x93;Donald Trump 2016&#x94; cap was his most popular item by far. Daniels said he was &#x93;inundated&#x94; with requests for the Trump yarmulkes from conference-goers and sold out almost immediately. &#x93;I totally underestimated the degree of support that Jewish people who are attending this event have for Trump,&#x94; said Daniels, who runs an online yarmulke shop called...free beaconhttps://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3412435/posts#commentTue, 22 Mar 2016 22:11:00 GMTAIPAC apologizes for Trump, crowd reactionhttps://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3412377/posts
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee apologized to President Obama Tuesday for Donald Trump and some attendees cheering the end of his presidency at the group&#x27;s policy conference.washington examinerhttps://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3412377/posts#commentTue, 22 Mar 2016 19:42:20 GMTAIPAC rebukes Trump for anti-Obama commentshttps://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3412228/posts
The president of the pro-Israel lobbying group AIPAC rebuked of Donald Trump on Tuesday, scolding him for his harsh comments about President Obama. &#x93;Last evening something occurred which has the potential to drive us apart, to divide us,&#x94; AIPAC President Lillian Pinkus said during the final day of the organization&#x92;s annual policy conference in Washington. &#x93;We say, unequivocally, that we do not countenance ad hominem attacks and we take great offense against those that are levied against the president of the United States of America from our stage.&#x94; &#x93;While we may have policy differences, we deeply respect the office of...The hillhttps://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3412228/posts#commentTue, 22 Mar 2016 13:59:18 GMTAIPAC: Grading the 2016 Candidateshttps://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3412200/posts
Each of the remaining presidential candidates delivered an address to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Policy Conference on Monday. And each, in their own way, did well. Donald Trump benefited most of all, as he was expected to face protests, and faced doubts about his ability to deliver a detailed policy speech. He gave a stirring, comprehensive address that won standing ovations. Here are his, and his rivals&#x92;, overall grades at AIPAC. Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R): A. The Ohio governor is often pigeonholed as &#x97; well, as the governor of Ohio. But he proved his foreign policy...Breitbarthttps://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3412200/posts#commentTue, 22 Mar 2016 13:03:52 GMTTrump&#x27;s Transformation at AIPAC Should Scare You (Schadenfreude alert!)https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3412160/posts
Writing for a Jewish publication, it is tempting to cast Donald Trump&#x92;s speech at AIPAC as a purely Jewish story. It was, after all, delivered at the annual gathering of the world&#x92;s premier pro-Israel organization. But whatever the reception to Trump&#x92;s speech says about Jews and AIPAC&#x97;little of it good&#x97;it pales in comparison to what the speech tells us about Trump as a viable politician and presidential candidate. And what it does tell us should frighten every American.Tablethttps://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3412160/posts#commentTue, 22 Mar 2016 11:03:54 GMTTrump and Palestine (Vanity)https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3412134/posts
There has been a lot of confusion here on Free Republic about Donald Trump&#x27;s use of the word &#x22;Palestine&#x22; in his AIPAC speech. Some people are very disturbed and others don&#x27;t understand why it is an issue. The issue is that the Arabs have taken the name Palestine to signify a new nation for Arabs. Some Israeli leftists talk about two nations, Israel and Palestine, existing side by side. Radicals in the US and Arab nationalists in the Middle East talk about a new country called Palestine replacing Israel. When a speaker talks about peace between Israel and Palestine, there...Free Republichttps://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3412134/posts#commentTue, 22 Mar 2016 07:22:32 GMTCruz knocks Trump over Palestinehttps://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3412108/posts
Sen. Ted Cruz landed an immediate blow on GOP presidential rival Donald Trump, who spoke before him Monday at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) conference, for how the front-runner referred to the Palestinian people. &#x22;Let me say at the outset, perhaps to the surprise of the previous speaker, Palestine has not existed since 1948,&#x22; Cruz said to lead off his speech in Washington. Trump repeatedly referred to the Palestinian people as &#x22;Palestine&#x22; during his remarks just minutes before Cruz. Neither the United States nor Israel recognizes Palestine as a country...The Hillhttps://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3412108/posts#commentTue, 22 Mar 2016 04:08:04 GMT